Lighting the Torch: The Tunisian Campaign and Forging an Allied Way of War 1942-43

Examines the Tunisian Campaign as a crucial period where the Allies learned to conduct effective multinational warfare.

Fought between November 1942 and May 1943, the Second World War’s Tunisian Campaign has often been described as where the Allies ‘learned to fight’. The vital culmination of the conflict fought across the breadth of North Africa, as well as an important stepping-stone to the opening of a second front in Europe, Tunisia saw American, British, and French forces on air, land, ...